I guess your friend laid down the ground rules for what you have to do for those tickets?


GREAT GAME!!!! I called the Burrell shot. I had a feeling when he came to the plate but thought maybe walk when it was 3-0 but after the next pitch was grovd and he was taking all the way for 3-1 I turned to the guy sitting next to me and said "Here it is". I haven't been to an overwhelming number of games since he has been on the team but he has hit a homerun in every game that I have been to when he has played.

The place was rocking!!! I loved the atmosphere.


Oh, for the dillusional one who says the Phils need to win game 2, not correct at all. The Dodgers needed to win game one.


BEAT LA!!!

Dodgers lose......it's a nice night.

BEAT LA!!! BEAT LA!!!

Hell of a start so far!!!

Nice, make that pitching staff work, 3rd pitcher coming in and we're only in the 3rd inning.

Maybe they should walk Myers the next time he comes up. ;)

Wow. I thought that was going to go off the bat, atie game would be.. interesting

2-0 series lead.

GO PHILS!

What worse: Rally Monkey or Cowbells?

I hate Dice-K at times, the way he nibbles at the strike zone.

watching the espn gamecast he was nibbling that entire goddamn inning - guy's really gotta cut that out

Is it weird that when there are 2 guys on against Dice-K, I assume he'll walk the next guy then get out of the inning? I swear I guessed that exact scenario before he started pitching to Crawford.

nope. that's pretty much the way dicey works

45 pitches through two innings? that's impressive. at this rate he'll go...5 *eyeroll*

Batters now 0-15 with the bases loaded against Dice-K this year. Some might say that's a clutch pitcher, others call it luck.

varitek? really? varitek makes me throw up in my mouth...

ugh...patience you cock-knockers

i think the rook (lowrie) is the guy who's seen the most pitches. pathetic.

Down, but not out

rook comes thru with a sac fly...now if the corpse of varitek can hit a ball to the outfield or not at an infielder we'll be up 2-0

yeahhh so that was apparently asking for a bit much.

It's about damn time, Rays

SI

Bother anyone else how buck martinez says papi's last name? Sounds like David ORtiz...really stressing the 'r.' It's driven me nuts throughout the playoffs.

Since my son has control of the remote, I clicked on espn gamecast to check the score & found a great quote from Neyer as the inning started (in reference to Dice-K starting the 8th)
"Both managers seem to be trying to out-dumb each other"

ugh

Tito "Grady Little" Francona is gonna give me a heart attack. Why would you leave your starter (who started at 112 pitches) in until the tying runs are on base and then bring in the reliever who is statistically much better when starting off an inning. Just makes no fucking sense. You got 7 out of Dice...isn't that enough? Why try to stretch it one more out? And more than that...REALLY why give him another batter when the first guy reaches??

PHEW


HUGE double play ball there by Masterson. Sox escape (no thanks to Frank-moron)

Neyer's little chat is a fun little diversion during the game.

SI

Come on, Rays...find a way.

Price has a bit of a funky delivery

If I may be allowed abit of partisan howling..

Fuck that ump. Fuck him right up the arse. His calls in the last inning gave the Rays the win

No they didn't. The sac fly gave them the win. That ump, while definitely expanding his strike zone when the game got to extra innings, didn't cost them anything. JD's throw sure might have though. Not a great throw at all.

To be honest, I was happy the umpire started expanding the strike zone. They could still be playing right now. (8 am Sunday morning)

Something has to be done about game times in baseball. I love baseball but if I wasn't a fan, there was no way I was staying up for that and there was no way my kids (if I had them) would have been staying up for that.

EXPAND the strike zone? More like he turned it into a keyhole in that last half-inning.

Hell....I'm sure he was just half-awake back there anyway.

Alright Rays!!!

What a great victory that they needed :).

A really neat story:

Scolded at school, fan lauded by Rays | MLB.com: News

Talk about good karma... no wonder they won :D.

But seriously, suspending a kid for having a mohawk like haircut?! Really?!

at the Dodger game right now!

Danny DeVito just outed himself as a dodger fan.

What an asshole.

:)

Baseball is so fucking hilarious.

Only thing funnier than baseball and its "system of honor" is hockey fights.

Absolutely boring as shit. What are these guys, 13 year old girls fighting over boys? Stupid as fuck.

They clearly were trying to get into the heads of the Phils, being down 2-0 and now at home with a big lead. This is a moment they'll cite as a "turning point" later.

I don't get this comment, I have seen some brutal hockey fights

The whole idea of millionaires beating each other up over a game. Just boil it down to its roots. All of the "respect" and "honor" and all of that silliness.

Also, it's interesting that it's those two sports that allow this sort of tomfoolery. Me thinks Goddell or David Stern wouldn't take too kindly to those sorts of man-rituals in their sports.

but you have to understand fighting is as much a part of hockey as tackling is in football. It's just part of the game.

It stems from kids having to grind their way throught the low lovel minors and having to show their toughness. The movie Youngblood may be corny, but it also have some very accurate depictions.

To say Tomfoolery kind of trivializes a big part of the sport.

Yeah, DC, I agree with Lathum. Those aren't really comparable. Fighting in hockey is actually part of the game and allowed (with a penalty, of course). And the presence of that fighting possibility is a strategy element to the game.

With baseball, it's about a bunch men pissing in their panties over nothing.

That is BS. Fighting in hockey, which is asininely stupid, does nothing to further gameplay while tackling does.

Not true. Fighting is the in game punishment for rough, borderline play, particularly where the refs miss it. Not saying tackling is necessarily a good comparison, but fighting is a lot more integral part of the game of hockey than the bull crappy that goes on in baseball.

Bucc - have you watched a hockey league that doesn't allow fighting? Do you think it's a better product? (in my experience it goes one of two ways - either no hitting (ugh) or becomes a complete cheap shot arena (even worse)

I don't think there would be an NHL without fighting. Certainly not one that I would ever choose to watch. European hockey = teh boring.

So is football that much more advanced where the exact same thing does not devolve to fighting (most all of the time)?

how exactly is that true?

can't they play with flags?

bhlloy, I follow collegiate hockey where fighting is a disqualification, I believe.

In football, there are few positions where you can't get a guy back if you think he cheapshotted you, and it's legal and part of the game. There is rarely a need for fighting. Plus, the refs there are probably better than most in the other major professional leagues; they seem to catch most of the stupid shit.